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Dell King

Editor, Director

 Dell King

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Dell King

Editor and director Dell King’s plans to be a filmmaker faced a challenge when she discovered that the Government’s National Film Unit had closed its doors to women directors. Instead King began her long screen career as a negative cutter, and later worked as editor or sound editor on a run of documentaries and features, including the classics Ngati and Vigil.

In film you are not moving the characters, you’re moving the audience, you’re taking them on a journey. Their eyes are the camera. The editor in a sense becomes the defender of the audience. 
 
 

Screenography

Screenography
 Role/s
 Dreamers and Schemers

Dreamers and Schemers

Director

1995

 Married

Married

Editor

1992

 Matrons of Honour

Matrons of Honour

Producer
Editor

1992

 Mother Tongue

Mother Tongue

Editor

1992

 Te Rua

Te Rua

Co-Editor

1991

 Ruia Taitea: The World is Where We Are

Ruia Taitea: The World is Where We Are

Co-Director
Director Drama Sequences

1990

 O'Reilly's Luck

O'Reilly's Luck

Editor

1988

 Ngati

Ngati

Editor

1987

 Vigil

Vigil

Sound Editor

1984

 Hooks and Feelers

Hooks and Feelers

Editor

1983

 A Visit to a Sheep Farm

A Visit to a Sheep Farm

Producer
Director

1982

 Taking Over

Taking Over

Co-Director
Co-Producer
Editor

1982

 Burials in Ban Nadi

Burials in Ban Nadi

Director
Producer

1981

 In Joy

In Joy

Editor

1980

 Learning Fast

Learning Fast

Editor

1980

 Sons For the Return Home

Sons For the Return Home

Sound Editor

1979

 All the Way Up There

All the Way Up There

Editor

1978

 From Where the Spirit Calls

From Where the Spirit Calls

Editor

1978

 A Nice Sort of Day

A Nice Sort of Day

Sound Editor

1977

 Aku Mahi Whatu Maori

Aku Mahi Whatu Maori

Editor

1977

 Autumn Fires

Autumn Fires

Editor
Narrator

1977

 Solo

Solo

Sound Editor

1977

 Percy the Policeman

Percy the Policeman

Editor

1976

 Pukemanu

Pukemanu

Actor

1971 - 1972

 Runaway

Runaway

Negative Cutter

1964

 Pictorial Parade

Pictorial Parade

Negative Cutter

1957-60


The titles listed here may not reflect this person's full screenography. These are only the titles that are included in or referenced by this site.